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Established in 1883 and considered the trade’s leading business in Austria ever since, we have been dealing in rare books, manuscripts and autographs for more than a century, serving private collectors and institutional customers all over the world.

What’s new: recent acquisitions

  • Kipling, Rudyard, English novelist and short story writer (1865-1936). Eight autograph and typed letters, signed.Various, 3 October 1918 - 23 June 1935.

    $16,235.00

  • [Qur'an]. Kashmiri Qur'an manuscript.Kashmir, ca. 1800 CE.

    $30,305.00

  • Heidegger, Martin. Hegel und die Griechen.Tübingen, 1960.

    $704.00

  • [Indian National Congress]. Volume of ten pamphlets, including Hume's speech, The People's Cause, The …Calcutta, Lahore, Madras, Serampore, and London, 1888-1916.

    $4,871.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

    $8,118.00

  • Kauffmann, Angelika, painter (1741-1807). Autograph letter signed.Rome, 18 Nov 1792.

    $10,282.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

    $129,881.00

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $216,468.00